Physics Department News
"Pint of Science" returns to Coventry for 2019
Staff and students from the Physics department will again contribute to Coventry's "Pint of Science" festival this year, to be held from 20-22 May in venues around the city. Departmental representatives include Jessica Marshall, Matthew Hoskin, Sam Seddon, Tishtrya Mehta, and Alun Rees.
Experimental Demonstration of Room-Temperature Spin Transport in n-Type Germanium Epilayers
Room-temperature spin transport has now been shown in both pivotal semiconductor materials, Ge and Si, providing new opportunities for the future of semiconductor spintronics.
Spinless composite fermions in an ultrahigh-quality strained Ge quantum well
Discovery of Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in a strained Germanium semiconductor indicates superior quality of epitaxial material and offers the simplest system to research quantum physics.
Self-organised fractional quantisation in a hole quantum wire
The discovery suggests a new area of experimentation in 1D systems, particularly direct measurement of the charge, with implications for possible schemes of topological quantum information processing.